From 5c57a51ac82276a41e11fd9ce07e627d6c40d2fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Richey <alrichey@amazon.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:06:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(tui): show eval in the menu outside a project
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Evaluation does not need a local project, so users who haven't created
one yet can now find and use eval from the root menu.

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Assisted-by: Crush:us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5
---
 src/components/RouterScreen.test.tsx | 2 +-
 src/handlers/screen.tsx              | 2 +-
 src/tui/tui.test.tsx                 | 9 +++------
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/RouterScreen.test.tsx b/src/components/RouterScreen.test.tsx
index d0924928b..c45af53e0 100644
--- a/src/components/RouterScreen.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/RouterScreen.test.tsx
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ describe("menu rendering", () => {
     const frame = r.lastFrame()!;
     const entries = menuEntries(frame);
     expect(entries.screens).toContain("create");
-    expect(entries.screens).not.toContain("eval");
+    expect(entries.screens).toContain("eval");
     const visible = [...entries.screens, ...entries.cliOnly];
     const projectCommands = createProjectHandlers(r.core, testIO().io)
       .slice(1)
diff --git a/src/handlers/screen.tsx b/src/handlers/screen.tsx
index e9079d866..d28d3a704 100644
--- a/src/handlers/screen.tsx
+++ b/src/handlers/screen.tsx
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const PROJECT_REQUIRED_OPTIONS = [
   "traces",
   "export",
 ];
-const NO_PROJECT_HIDDEN_OPTIONS = [...PROJECT_REQUIRED_OPTIONS, "eval"];
+const NO_PROJECT_HIDDEN_OPTIONS = [...PROJECT_REQUIRED_OPTIONS];
 
 export interface RootScreenProps extends ScreenProps {
   inProject: boolean;
diff --git a/src/tui/tui.test.tsx b/src/tui/tui.test.tsx
index 24c3bcc59..8b733dff7 100644
--- a/src/tui/tui.test.tsx
+++ b/src/tui/tui.test.tsx
@@ -249,17 +249,14 @@ describe("TUI launch", () => {
     return streams.stdout();
   }
 
-  test("outside a project the first frame shows create under the banner and hides project commands and eval", async () => {
+  test("outside a project the first frame shows create under the banner and hides project commands but shows eval", async () => {
     const out = await launchRootMenu(undefined);
     expect(out.indexOf(BANNER)).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
     expect(out.indexOf(BANNER)).toBeLessThan(out.indexOf(CREATE_ROW));
-    for (const hidden of [
-      "add project resources",
-      "deploy the project to AWS",
-      "evaluate and optimize",
-    ]) {
+    for (const hidden of ["add project resources", "deploy the project to AWS"]) {
       expect(out).not.toContain(hidden);
     }
+    expect(out).toContain("evaluate and optimize");
   });
 
   test("inside a project create is never drawn and the rest of the menu is", async () => {